Platform - Green Party US
Section III. Ecological Sustainability
A. Climate Change
Declare a Climate Emergency
The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:
Public Housing and Walkable Communities
Expand public housing until every person has an affordable housing option.
Rehabilitate existing and build new public housing that is powered by clean energy.
Public housing will be open to anyone so that low-income, working-class, and middle-class people live in the same developments and reduce race and class segregation.
Priority placement should be given to low-income people as the expanded public housing sector is built out in order to house the homeless as soon as possible.
Coordinate the rehabilitation of existing and the building of new public housing with public transportation and the placement of ecological manufacturing in order to transform urban landscapes into walkable, bikeable communities.
The public housing system should be governed from the bottom up by a decentralized federation of elected local/regional public housing authorities that in turn elect state and federal boards for state and federal coordination.
Develop organic urban farms and farm belts around cities and towns to increase access to fresh food and employment options in agriculture.